Quotes About Authenticity

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

I look like a child - and I love it!

I love people who are real.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Love. People threw that word around like carzy.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Everyone has the right to be who they are

Get in and be honest about where you are. Love yourself both for where you are and for what you want to change, and don't be so concerned with what the other guy is thinking about you. It will change tomorrow anyway.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

Maybe she was doing the wrong thing, but that was the way she was.

Ridiculing the high achievers is a way of regaining a sense of dignity and power in the face of their own disappointment and resentment.… When black students disproportionately experience low achievement in the context of disproportionate white high achievement, some emphasize their black authenticity, seeking dignity in racial solidarity."40

Just as girls who have become interested in boys become disdainful of their friends still interested in dolls, the Black teens who are at the table can be quite judgmental toward those who are not. "If I think it is a sign of authentic Blackness to sit at this table, then you should too.

Finding a man who tells the truth is like looking for a dinosaur

True smiles are brief—between two-thirds of a second and four seconds. That's why a held smile begins to look menacing. A true smile is the one expression that we cannot fake.

In fact, overwhelmingly museum displays are artificial.

In 1856, shortly before his death, Lord Ellesmere gave the painting to the new National Portrait Gallery in London as its founding work. As the gallery's first acquisition, it has a certain sentimental prestige, but almost at once its authenticity was doubted.

If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623—the famous First Folio.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.